| Avane Postal Savings Cancellations on Pakke-Porto Stamps |  Top |
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245572 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Postal Savings "fiscal" cancellation: "(Landsfogeden) i Nordgrønland" crown and straight-line in violet (Wowern "purple") VF strike on Scott #Q6 [20 øre Pakke-Porto, Perforation 11.5] Used with XF centering, with a additional blue crayon horizontal line cancellation. Single strike of this large postmark, excellent to the extent that it can fit on a single stamp. Listed by Wowern in GF1 1988 on page 60. While not a numbered "Avane" cancellation, this served the same purpose and was mostly only used for the savings system. Wowern noted that additional blue lines are typical with this cancellation. The Wowern 1988 value for this cancellation is 300, double the value of the most common Avane numeral cancellations. This cancellation is not often seen, and when it is seen, it is usually only a partial strike such as this one. An very nice example! ACTUAL item. |
26.00 |
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400527 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #9 (Akugdlit) violet, XF centered, well-struck postal savings cancel on VF centered Scott #Q6. The stamp is an earlier printing, indicated by the muted red color shade, with very thin paper, and slightly smaller margins. A wonderful example with remarkably nice quality in all respects. ACTUAL item. |
40.00 |
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400530 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #13 (Rhodebay) violet postal savings cancellations, VF to Superbly struck and centered, and with some additional diagonal strikes (perhaps instead of crayon lines for the purpose of canceling the redeemed savings book??). BLOCK OF FOUR of Scott #Q6 [Perf 11.5] with Superb centering and strong perforations. The upper left stamp has Wowern-listed "Fh" PLATE VARIETY: "white line below left side of left-center gull". Also, BOTH lower stamps in the block appear to have (it is always faint) the Wowern-listed "Ff" PLATE VARIETY: "dent in top of center of upper frame line". The juxtaposition of these varieties only occurs in the 1926 (i.e. third) printing, which would place this block in sheet positions 8-9/13-14. Such high-quality blocks of Avane-canceled stamps are very hard to find (because the layout of the savings book pages encouraged placement as single stamps). This is the only Avane-canceled 4-block that I have recording having since around 2000 and I do not recall having more than two or three others before that (going back to 1973). ACTUAL item. |
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400526 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #28 (Satut) violet, VF centered postal savings cancel on VF centered Scott #Q6, also with typical savings-redeeming blue cancellation line. Some perforations on the left side are creased or missing, probably from being placed too close to the fold at the center of the savings book. There is some extra violet color around the cancellation which typically occurs when a savings book got damp and color from a cancellation on the facing page transferred. Without the problems, this cancellation would sell for $36. ACTUAL item. |
8.00 |
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244140 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #31 (Nugatsiak) violet, VF well-struck, postal savings cancel on Fine+ Q6. Unusually nice example of the cancellation (#31 is often either blurry or has manuscript lines through it) -- much better than usual. ACTUAL item. |
32.00 |
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400528 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #31 (Nugatsiak) violet, Superb, well-struck and a little angled and off to one side, postal savings cancellation on Scott #Q8a [1930 1 kr Pakke-Porto, Perforation 11.5] with VF centering. While this Avane number is not "rare", it is much less often seen on the 1 kr stamp, and certainly seldom seen as such an attractive example. ACTUAL item. |
69.00 |
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245570 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #36 (Tugssak) in either black or light-violet-black, only Fine strike but the "36" is quite clear. Though light, is almost perfectly centered postal savings cancel on Scott #Q8a [1930 1 kr Pakke-Porto, Perforation 11.5] with F-VF centering. Additional blue crayon line as often seen in the savings books. The stamp has Wowern-listed "Ha" PLATE VARIETY: "italicized E in PAKKE" from sheet position 7. While this Avane number is not "rare", it is a little scarcer than some others, and it is much less often seen on the 1 kr stamp! This example is the only one I have recorded having with this cancellation color. ACTUAL item. |
39.00 |
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400529 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Avane #36 (Tugssak) violet, Superbly centered strike, postal savings cancellation on Scott #Q8a [1930 1 kr Pakke-Porto, Perforation 11.5] with F-VF++ centering. With additional blue crayon line as often seen in the savings books; the line was often applied when the book was redeemed. The stamp has Wowern-listed "He" PLATE VARIETY: "white dot between tip of left-center gull and upper left of crown" from sheet position 18. However, the white dot is somewhat covered by the blue line. While this Avane number is not "rare", it is a little scarcer than some others, and it is much less often seen on the 1 kr stamp! This example is only the third example (and only the second example on a 1 kr stamp) of the #36 cancellation that I have recorded having since I started recording these around 2000 -- and it is by far the best struck and best centered example. ACTUAL item. |
69.00 |